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A female indicted with pursuing Kate McCann apparently deposited her a recorded message which asked: "suppose I am Madeleine?"

Julia Wandelt, 24, who court testimony revealed has persistently asserted she was the vanished Madeleine McCann, and her co-defendant are standing trial indicted with stalking Kate and Gerry McCann from June 2022 and February the current year.

On Monday, the court heard call records and evidence recovered from phones logged Ms Wandelt consistently asking Madeleine's mother for a biological test throughout the past two years.

Madeleine's vanishing in 2007 - as a three-year-old during a trip in Portugal - is among the most covered child disappearance cases and remains unresolved.

'I Don't Want Money'

One voicemail, presented in court, documented Ms Wandelt saying: "I know I'm heavy and not pretty like Madeleine had been, but I feel what I believe."

While another instance of Ms Wandelt's recordings with Mrs McCann's recording expressed: "What if there is a tiny probability that I am she? What happens next? Isn't that important for you?"

"I don't want money, I have a existence here in Poland, I only wish to discover," the recording stated.

The jury was told that by means of emails, mobile messages and phone calls, Ms Wandelt demanded a genetic test, sent youth pictures to her phone in a effort to display a similarity to Mrs McCann's vanished daughter, and stated to have "memories" from a early life with the McCanns.

An intelligence analyst, an intelligence analyst with the police force who collated the data, told the court there "showed no any responses" from Mrs McCann.

Ms Wandelt furthermore communicated with close associates of the McCanns, as per the communication logs.

On that date, Gerry McCann picked up a communication from Ms Wandelt to his wife's phone, saying she had "incorrect contact information."

During that incident Ms Wandelt recorded a recording on Mrs McCann's voicemail stating "I will persist and I intend to demonstrate my point."

The court heard Mrs Spragg developed a connection via internet with Ms Wandelt preceding accompanying her on a trip to the McCanns' home in the county in last December.

Phone records showed Mrs Spragg had contacted using messaging service to Mrs McCann to express the press had characterized Ms Wandelt as "emotionally disturbed" but that she deserved to be considered genuine in the months preceding the appearance to Rothley, Leicestershire, in that winter.

The court learned communications between the two defendants, in November 2024, discussing attempting to get Mrs McCann's genetic material from her trash or from utensils at a dining venue.

"We have to take action," the co-defendant advised Ms Wandelt.

On the night of the trip to their house, the defendant transmitted a text which expressed: "We're currently sat near the McCanns' house with our lights out like investigators. I wanted to do this with someone else I hadn't anticipated I would be doing that with the McCanns."

The proceedings continues.